Gethsemane is a garden across the Kidron Valley on the Mount of Olives, a ridge paralleling the eastern part of Jerusalem, where Jesus is said to have prayed on the night of his arrest before the Crucifixion. The name suggests that the garden was a grove
The Mount of Olives is frequently mentioned in the New Testament. From itJesusenteredJerusalemat the beginning of the last week of his life (Matthew21:1;Mark11:1). Two days before the Crucifixion, in his so-calledOlivet Discourse, he foretells the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of ...
Matthew 11New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 11 Now when Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and proclaim his message in their cities. Messengers from John the Baptist 2 When John heard in prison what the Messiah[a] was doing, he ...
Gospel of Peter, pseudepigraphal (noncanonical and unauthentic) Christian writing of the mid-2nd century ad, the extant portion of which covers the condemnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus. Because the work reflects the view that Christ’s bo